Vending apparatus.



No. 683,66l. Patented Out. I, l90l.

. m. F. PRICE.

VENDING APPARATUS.

(Application filed Dec. 13, 1900.)

(No Modei.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MILBERT FRANKLIN PRICE, OF IOWA CITY, IOIVA.

VENDING APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 683,661, dated October1, 1901.

Original application filed May 16 1900, Serial No. 16,866i Divided andthis application filed December 13, 1900. fierial No. 39,627. (Nomodel.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MILBERT FRANKLIN PRICE, a citizen of the UnitedStates, and a resident of Iowa City, in the county of Johnson and Stateof Iowa, have invented a new and Improved Vending Apparatus, of whichthe following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The purpose of this invention is to provide an improved apparatus forvending collarbuttons, which will be particularly adaptable tocoin-controlled mechanism.

To this end the invention comprises means for carrying and progressivelyfeeding a tape or ribbon to which the buttons are removably attached,combined with certain hereinafterdescribed devices for automaticallydetaching the buttons from the tape and separately delivering them tothe purchaser.

This specification is a specific description of one form of theinvention, while the claims are definitions of the actual scope thereof.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar characters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in both views.

Figure 1 is a sectional view of the invention, showing the operatingparts in side elevation; and Fig. 2 is a front elevation of theoperating parts.

15 indicates a tape or ribbon which, as here shown, is endless, it beingmounted to run on two drums or sheaves 14 and 20*. Obviously accordingto the principle of my invention the ribbon or tape 15 may be of anysuitable material. To this tape are removably attached thecollar-buttons, (indicated at 16%) the bases of the collar-buttons lyingfiat against the tape and being held removably in place by fasteningdevices of any desired sort. According to the construction illustratedin the drawings, I have shown clips 15", which engage the bases of thebuttons and hold them upon the tape. I provide means for automaticallydetaching these buttons from the tape as the tape is fed. The preferredform of these means is shown in the drawings, and consists in attachingto or forming on the drum 20 a number of teeth 21, which are designed tosuccessively project through the tape 15 and engage the bases of thecollar-buttons, so as to force the bases out of engagement with theclips 15 and permit the buttons to drop on the delivery-slide 43*, whichis shown in the draw ings. Therefore. it will be seen that as the drums20 and 14: are turned the tape 15 is moved around the drums and the pinsor spurs 21 successively engage the tape and passing through the samewill successively dislodge the collar-buttons, thus delivering themautomatically to the vendee.

It is immaterial, so far as my invention is concerned, what mechanism isemployed to impart movement to the parts 15 and 20. I have here shown acoin-controlled apparatus which is the same as that disclosed in mycopending application filed May 16, 1900, Serial No. 16,866, of whichthis application is a division. These means,briefiydescribed,comprise acoin-chute 24 delivering the coin to a hand-lever 26 this lever being ofsuch construction that the coin engaged with the lever will throw intooperation a dog 31, causing the dog to engage in one of the recesses32"" in the drum 20. This permits a partial movement to be imparted tothe drum by the operator pressing on the lever 26, and the parts carriedby this lever are of such construction that when the lever is moved downin the manner referred to the coin is released and the dog 31 thenresumes its normal position of inactivity. This mechanism thereforedelivers one collar-button for each movement of the lever 26*.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent 1. A collar-button-vendin g apparatus, having a tapeor ribbon to which collar-buttons are removably attached, and a drumaround which the tape is caused to move, the drum being provided withspurs or teeth thereon which are arranged respectively to engage thecollar-buttons and detach them from the ribbon or tape, to separatelydeliver the collar-buttons from the machine.

2. In a collar-button-vending apparatus, the combination of a tape orribbon having fastening devices thereon, such fastening devices engagingthe bases of the collar-buttons removably to hold the buttons, and meansQ a esaeei for carrying and progressively feeding said tape, said meanscomprising devices serving to engage the collar-buttons and move themoutwardly out of engagement with the fasten- 5 ing devices," whereby todeliver the collarbuttons. I 3. Acollar-button-v'ending apparatus,having a tape or ribbon, fastening devices attached thereto and adaptedremovably to enio gage the bases of the collar-buttons to hold them onthe ribbon, and means for carrying and progressively feeding the tape orribbon,

such means comprising devices serving to engage the collar-buttons andmove them out of engagement with the fastening devices, I 5 whereby todeliver the collar-buttons.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

MIL'BERT FRANKLIN PRICE.

Witnesses:

HATTIE M. SHoALs', FRED H. SHoALs.

